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Top eight stories for today including supporters of a Belarusian opposition figure say a video of him confessing to trying to bring down the government was made under duress; The U.S. economy added 559,000 jobs; Facebook said it will suspend former President Donald Trump from its platform for at least two years, and more.

/ June 4, 2021
In this still from video released by ONT channel on Thursday, June 3, 2021, dissident journalist Roman Protasevich weeps at the end of a 90-minute interview by ONT's Marat Markov at a darkened studio in Belarus. The footage of Protasevich aired late Thursday by the state-controlled ONT channel. Political prisoners in Belarus are coming under increasing pressure following the recent arrest of activist Raman Pratasevich from a forcibly diverted Ryanair flight. Human rights groups say these prisoners have been marked with yellow tags sewn into their prison uniforms to single them out from regular prisoners. (ONT channel via Courthouse News)

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Top eight stories for today including supporters of a Belarusian opposition figure say a video of him confessing to trying to bring down the government was made under duress; The U.S. economy added 559,000 jobs; Facebook said it will suspend former President Donald Trump from its platform for at least two years, and more.

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National

1.) The U.S. economy added 559,000 jobs last month, an uptick that would be impressive in normal times but one that is seen as modest during a pandemic recovery.

In this May 26, 2021 photo, a sign for workers hangs in the window of a shop along Main Street in Deadwood, S.D. U.S. employers added 559,000 jobs in May, an improvement from April’s sluggish gain but still evidence that many companies are struggling to find enough workers as the economy rapidly recovers from the pandemic recession. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

2.) Facebook said it will suspend former President Donald Trump from its platform for at least two years, meaning the earliest he would be allowed to post is January 2023. 

In this Tuesday, July 7, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a "National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America's Schools" event in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

3.) Stitching back up environmental protections unraveled by former President Donald Trump, the Biden administration set its sights Friday on five rules that have been making it harder these last four years for the United States to keep species off the brink of extinction.

(Credit: NOAA)

Regional

4.) A federal judge in Montana rebuffed efforts by the Biden administration to pause a lawsuit by several states, tribes and environmental groups seeking to end coal mining lease sales on federal land.

FILE - In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a dragline excavator moves rocks above a coal seam at the Spring Creek Mine in Decker, Mont. The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

5.) Drug reform is seeing some wins after an otherwise conservative Texas legislative session. The Republican-controlled statehouse this year passed a range of modest reform measures, proving that even in right-wing states, some politicians are moving beyond the war on drugs.

The Texas Capitol building in Austin. (Photo by Kim Broomhall from Pixabay via Courthouse News)

6.) The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that a woman arrested for drug possession was unlawfully seized without probable cause when a police officer took her driver’s license to his squad car for a background check and didn’t give it back while questioning her.

(Pixabay image via Courthouse News)

International

7.) A Belarusian opposition figure arrested after his Ryanair flight was forced to land in Minsk is seen on a state television show confessing about his role to bring down the government and describing the opposition leaders as “money launderers.” Roman Protasevich’s supporters say the video was made under duress.

In this still from video released by ONT channel on Thursday, June 3, 2021, dissident journalist Roman Protasevich weeps at the end of a 90-minute interview by ONT's Marat Markov at a darkened studio in Belarus. The footage of Protasevich aired late Thursday by the state-controlled ONT channel. Political prisoners in Belarus are coming under increasing pressure following the recent arrest of activist Raman Pratasevich from a forcibly diverted Ryanair flight. Human rights groups say these prisoners have been marked with yellow tags sewn into their prison uniforms to single them out from regular prisoners. (ONT channel via Courthouse News)

8.) Four days of hearings kicked off on Friday in London by a so-called people’s tribunal into allegations that China is committing crimes against humanity and genocide against ethnic Uyghur Muslims and other Turkic minority groups.

During a hearing in London on Friday, June 4, 2021, Omir Bekali shows a people's tribunal how he was shackled when he was arrested and placed in a Chinese re-education camp where he says he was tortured. (Screenshot via Courthouse News)
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